Building Codes Buffonnery
I am old enough to remember when craftsmen used to sit on their lunch buckets and discuss how to build better houses. They were not so much worried about codes but about the quality of work being done. The responsibility …
Author: Don Schanzenbach
Suspender Man™, Don Schanzenbach, has long been an outspoken advocate of recapturing culture for Christ. He holds a MA in applied Biblical studies and a doctorate in applied theological studies in the field of political philosophy and government from New Geneva Seminary. He has been thinking, writing and speaking on Christian culture for two decades.
Saving Our Neighbors
As the economic destruction worsens some of us find ourselves wondering what our duties might be toward our neighbors. If people come begging for help what are we to do? Most conservative Christians understand we are to help our immediate …
Income Tax Debates
Income Tax Debates The fight is on to decide if the American people will pay more in income taxes in 2011. Our congressional leaders are busy positioning themselves right and left. Some say they want no more tax increases of …
On Christmas Greetings
Christmas greetings differ from other letters in that they turn our hearts toward the infancy of Christ and all that was birthed in the earth from the miraculous conception. The inevitability of His birth drags us along. We are forced …
Encouragement from Jeremiah
I have been reading Jeremiah. He pronounces judgments on God’s people for their sins. They sinned against God both personally and nationally. God was calling them to repent knowing they would not. The doom of the nation was to be …
Defending South Korea
Defending South Korea The Koreas, North and South, have been making the headlines again lately. It has been sixty years since the big war there erupted along their DMZ. In the first Korean War the United States assumed it was …
Understanding Revelation
Hi Don, I know some people would say that Revelation is about past events and some would say future. What is your take on that? If John was imprisoned by Diocletian, who came after Nero, then the events of 70 …
Holy Holidays
As we enter the holiday season it seems fitting to remember where this whole idea of a holiday (holy day) originated. Everything has its roots. However, those roots are often forgotten and sometimes that forgetting lays hard on the ones …
Intelligent Design Flaws
Unredeemed men who learn to reject Darwinism will not become disciples of Christ unless God calls them.
Reflecting 11-15-10
Reflecting – This has been a day of reflecting on the nature of God’s gift of family, in particular my gems of daughters. My youngest struggled through a major surgery today. We – well, we waited. Everybody prayed. We have …